Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Read them out loud. Now look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite… — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the interest… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“The language of categories is affectionately known as "abstract nonsense," so named by Norman Steenrod. This term is essentially accurate and not… — Paolo Aluffi Copy Share Image
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that… — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos)… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of… — James Tanton Copy Share Image
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There's barely any aspect of our modern lives that hasn't had a mathematical contribution at some point and yet, if you asked… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's,… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four."… — Ruth Park Copy Share Image
“The fact that simultaneous discovery occurs in mathematics, as well as the sciences, points toward some objective element within their subject matter… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
